'Vorwaerts'

It appears that the Washington Times story on the communist/socialist history of the term "Forward" has taken off.

Naturally, the Left is trying to pooh-pooh the story as they are quite sensitive to being labeled "socialists."  Who can blame them?

The Washington Times story contains these paragraphs on the history of "Forward":

The Obama campaign released its new campaign slogan Monday in a 7-minute video. The title card has simply the word "Forward" with the "O" having the familiar Obama logo from 2008. It will be played at rallies this weekend that mark the Obama re-election campaign's official beginning. 

There have been at least two radical-left publications named "Vorwaerts" (the German word for "Forward"). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It still publishes as the organ of Germany's SDP, though that party has changed considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names associated with that publication .

East Germany named its Army soccer club ASK Vorwaerts Berlin (later FC Vorwaerts Frankfort).  Vladimir Lenin founded the publication "Vpered" (the Russian word for "forward") in 1905.

Above, the Obama Campaign's "Forward."

 In view of the Obama Campaign's choice of a slogan with such a notorious history, here's my suggestion for an "inspiring" campaign poster: